Grammaticalization Scenarios : Cross-linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies. Volume 2, Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific / edited by Walter Bisang and Andrej Malchukov.

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies...

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Other Authors: Bisang, Walter (Editor), Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich) (Editor)
Other title:Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
Series:Comparative handbooks of linguistics ; v. 4.2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Measuring Grammaticalization: A questionnaire
  • 15. Grammaticalization in Cushitic, with special reference to Beja
  • 16. Grammaticalization in Manding languages
  • 17. Grammaticalization in Emai
  • 18. Grammaticalization in Tswana
  • 19. Grammaticalization in Yucatec Maya
  • 20. Grammaticalization in Uto-Aztecan languages from northwestern Mexico
  • 21. Grammaticalizations in Hoocąk
  • 22. Grammaticalization and polysynthesis: Iroquoian
  • 23. Grammaticalization in the Quechuan and Aymaran languages of the Central Andes
  • 24. Grammaticalization in Mountain Ok (Papua New Guinea)
  • 25. Grammaticisation processes and reanalyses in Sulawesi languages
  • 26. Grammaticalization patterns in Nyulnyulan language
  • 27. Grammaticalization in creole languages: Accelerated functionalization and semantic imitation
  • Language index
  • Subject index.